Australian Open

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heaps of people everyone risks their lives everyday

no due to her injured muscle

The four Major tournaments, also incorrectly called the Grand Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, played in that order. Both the Australian Open and the US Open are played on hard courts, while the French Open is played on clay, and Wimbledon is played on grass. A Grand Slam is a statistic, achieved when a tennis player wins all four Major tournaments in the same competitive season, which in tennis is the same calender year. Recently, the phrase "grand slam" has been incorrectly applied, resulting in a cheapening of the real Grand Slam.

The Open Era of tennis began in 1968 when the Major tournaments agreed to allow professional players to compete. Wimbledon, the first of the Majors, began in 1877, followed by the US Open (1881), the French Open (1891), and the Australian Open (1905). Beginning in 1905 and continuing to the present day, all four majors have been played yearly, with the exception of the 1st and 2nd World Wars and 1986 for the Australian Open. The Australian Open is the 1st Major of the year (January), followed by the French Open (May-June), Wimbledon (June-July), and US Open (August-September). Winning both Wimbledon (on grass) and the French Open (on clay), back-to-back, is quite an achievement considering the traditional difference between the court surfaces and the fast turnaround time between the tournaments.

In modern years, the Majors have begun to add instant replay, giving the players the ability to challenge calls. The US Open was to the first to allow this in 2006. Both the US Open and Australian Open also feature night matches played under the lights. The US Open was the first to feature night matches and also features the most night matches of any Major. The US Open is the only Major to have a tie-breaker in the 5th set of Men's Single's play, whereas in all the other Majors players play out the 5th set (until one player leads by 2 games).

A singles player or doubles team that wins all four Major tournaments in the same year is said to have achieved the "Grand Slam". If the player or team wins all four consecutively, but not in the same calendar year, it is called a "Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam". Winning all four at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a "Career Grand Slam". Winning the four Majors and a gold medal in tennis at the Summer Olympics has been called a "Golden Slam" since 1988, when Steffi Graf became the only person to accomplish that feat in a single calendar year. Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal have accomplished a "Career Golden Slam", winning all five events but not in the same calendar year.

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A$2,100,000 for the winner

What is " second place astrlian open win" ? Do not understand question!

The final match was played between Serena Williams and Justine Henin. Serena Williams won the match. This was Serena Williams' fifth Australian Open Singles title.

On the men's side it is Rafael Nadal. On the women's side it is Serena Williams.

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Chris O'Neil in 1978.

None of them, rather it was Roger Federer in three straight sets. He played Andy Murray.

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Currently, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer in a close 2nd.

Katherine Gorge was formed by erosion from the Katherine River.

the Australian open is outdoors unless its not weather permitting and you know the Australian open is tennis right?

4 Australian titles

The winner of the women's singles title in the Australian Open would win $2,650,000. This is the same amount for the men's

No, in all Grand Slams sets 1 through 4 are played with a Tie-break, but the fifth set has no limit and there has been several matches that have had to be resumed the next day. The most notable example is the match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played in 3 days for wimbledon 2010. The final score was 6-4 3-6 6-7 7-6 70-68 for Isner. The match lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes

I am assuming you mean 'when did it change from single-handed to 2-handed'?

I think it mainly changed in the earlier days of Jimmy Connors and his girlfriend of the time, Chris Evert, who were both virtually top-ranked in the world. Both of them were using two-handed backhands.

Then, not long later, Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl had long-term great success using top-spun backhands - which had been somewhat of a rarity up until that point. With the advent of more European clay courts, the top-spin backhand established its place.

So, in effect, as grass became a less favourable surface in the world, top-spun backhands have become more 'the rage', and much more use of the two-hander as well - even for many forehands.

Becauseit is better than Wimbledon!!

You need to be in the top 116 players and then this is 8 wildcards and 4 qualifiers places (singles)

The doubles pair who have won the most Grand Slams is Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan. Todd Woodbridge and Mike Woodforde have also won a large number of Grand Slams.